Jewish Dominance in the Porn Industry

Triple Exthnics: Nathan
Abrams on Jews in the American porn industry,

Jewish Quarterly (UK), [print
edition] 2005, p. 27-30

"A story little told is that
of Jews in Hollywood's seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps
we'd prefer that the 'triple exthnics' didn't exist, but there's no
getting away from the fact that secular Jews played (and still continue
to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult film industry
in America. Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in
the United States, as Jews have helped transform a fringe subculture
into what has become a primary constituent of Americana. These are
the 'true blue' Jews. Smut peddlers

Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes overlapping)
genres: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up only two
percent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography.
Many erotica dealers in the book trade between 1890 and 1940 were
immigrant Jews of German origin ...

In
the postwar era, America's most notorious pornographer was Reuben
Sturman, the 'Walt Disney of porn.' According to the US Department
of Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the pornography
circulating in the country ... By the mid-80s he owned over 200 adult
bookstores ... It was said that Sturman did not simply control the
adult-entertainment industry, he was the industry.

Eventually he was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes and died,
disgraced, in prison in 1997. His son, David, continued running the
family business. The contemporary incarnation of Sturman is Steven
Hirsch, a 43-year-old Jewish Clevelander who has been described as
the 'Donald Trump of porno.' The link between the two is Steve's father,
Fred, who was a stockholder-cum-lieutenant to Sturman. Today Hirsch
runs the Vivid Entertainment Group, which has been called the Microsoft
of the porn world, the top producer of 'adult' films in the US. His
specialty was to import mainstream marketing techniques into the porn
business. Indeed, Vivid parallels the Hollywood studio system of the
1930s and 1940s, particularly in its exclusive contracts to porn stars
who are hired and moulded by Hirsch ...

Jews accounted for most of the leading male performers as well as
a sizeable number of female stars in porn movies of the 1970s and
'80s. The doyen of the Hebrew studs is Ron Jeremy ... [H]e's the nebischy,
fat, hairy, ugly guy (an image from his web site opens this article)
who gets to bed dozens of beautiful women. He presents an image of
a modern-day King David, a Jewish superstud who supersedes the traditional
heroes of Jewish lore ...

As probably the most famous Jewish male porn star, Jeremy has done
wonders for the psyche of Jewish men in America ... Seymore Butts,
aka Adam Glasser, is everything that Jeremy is not: young, handsome,
and toned ... Within a few years, 'Seymore Butts' -- his nom de porn
which is simultaneously his sales pitch -- became one of the largest
franchises in the adult-film business ... [H]e is today probably the
most famous Jewish porn mogul ...

Glasser employs 12 people, including his mother and cousin ... Gertzman
(Jay Gertzman, author of Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade
in Erotica, 1920-1940) explains that 'Jews, when they found themselves
excluded from a field of endeavor, turned to a profession in which
they sensed they could eventually thrive by cooperating with colleagues
in a community of effort' ... The adult entertainment business required
something that Jews possessed in abundance: chutzpah .. Of course,
the large number of Jews in porn were mainly motivated by the desire
to make profits ... As Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the
ADL, commented, 'Those Jews who enter the pornography industry have
done so as individuals pursuing the American dream" ...

Sturman ... identified as a Jew -- was a generous donator to Jewish
charities -- and the performer Richard Pacheco was once interviewed
to be a rabbinical student ... Is there a deeper reason, beyond the
mere financial, as to why Jews in particular have become involved
in porn? There is surely an element of rebellion in Jewish X-rated
participation. It's very taboo and [its] forbidden nature serves to
make it attractive.

As I have written in these pages before, treyf signifies 'the
whole world of forbidden sexuality, the sexuality of the goyim, and
there all the delights are imagined to lie ..." (Reel Kashrut, Jewish
food in film, JQ 189, Spring 2003) According to one anonymous industry
insider quoted by E. Michael Jones in the magazine Culture Wars
(May 2003), 'the leading male performers through the 1980s came from
secular Jewish upbringings and the females from Roman Catholic day
schools.' The standard porn scenario became, as a result, a Jewish
fantasy of schtupping the Catholic shiksa ...

Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated
industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP
establishment. Some porn stars viewed themselves as frontline fighters
in the spiritual battle between Christian America and secular humanism.

According to [Luke] Ford, Jewish X-rated actors often brag about their
'joy in being anarchic, sexual gadflies to the puritanical beast'.
Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is the result of an
atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to weaken
the dominant culture in America by moral subversion ...

Al
Goldstein, the publisher of Screw magazine, said (on lukeford.com),
'The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that
Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism."
Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and,
as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and
is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character
becomes more charged ...

It is a case of the traditional revolutionary/radical drive of immigrant
Jews in America being channeled into sexual rather than leftist politics.
Just as Jews have been disproportionately represented in radical movements
over the years, so they are disproportionately represented in the
porn industry. Jews in America have been sexual revolutionaries. A
large amount of the material on sexual liberation was written by Jews.
Those at the forefront of the movement that forced America to adopt
a more liberal view of sex were Jewish ..

Overall, then, porn performers are a group of people who praise rebellion,
self-fulfilment, and promiscuity. What are we ashamed of? This brief
overview and analysis of the role and motivations behind pornographers
and performers is intended to shed light on a neglected topic in American
Jewish popular culture. Little has been written about it."

[Nathan Abrams is a Lecturer in Modern American History at the University
of Aberdeen. He has just completed a book on neo-conservatism in the
United States.]

"Towering
Men and Stout-Hearted Sisters": Book review of Jewish scholar Jay
Gertzman's Bookleggers an Smuthounds

Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2000

"A great many of the publishers and peddlers of what was variously
called flagitious, pornographic, or erotic literature were Jews, and
most of those were German Jews who had learned the printing trades
in the old country.

This fact of course fed right into the animosity of
anti-smut crusaders who constantly decried the 'foreign, radical,
corrupting' character of the smut peddlers. The main protagonists
in this battle for the soul, if not the groin, of America were the
patrician John Saxton Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression
of Vice, and Samuel Roth, a writer, poet and genuine man of letters
and an equally authentic purveyor of sleaze. Roth, for example, not
only published (and often pirated) works by Lawrence, Joyce, Miller
and legitimate classics, but also printed and peddled flip books,
pornographic playing cards, albums of 'French postcards' and the vulgarities
known as 'Tijuana Bibles.'

Just to compound matters, during his various stints
in prison Roth wrote works like Jews Must Live, a book of rabid
anti-Jewish sentiment that Gertzman says still circulates in anti-Semitic
circles today ... Gertzman himself acknowledges towards the end of
his book that his uncle once ran the most notorious 'dirty bookshop'
in Philadelphia. For that matter, Sam Roth's grandson is none other
than Prof. James Kugel, the eminent Bible scholar at Harvard University.
If there's a more complicated and surprising tribe on earth, I've
yet to hear about it."

"Porners Must Live." San Francisco Bay Guardian,
October 25, 2000

"The story of the Web's most influential pornophile
is nearly unbelievable: the son of an Australian Christian evangelist,
Ford converted to Orthodox Judaism in 1993 – a 'porn-again Jew' in
Fordspeak – under the theological influence of right-wing Jewish talk-radio
demagogue Dennis Prager (whose Web site Ford also runs).

As a result, Ford's site is not really a porn site
at all. It's a daily chronicle of how devout Judaism and devout pornology
play themselves out in one man's endless public arguments with himself.
The basic premise: how can someone devote his professional life to
an industry he believes is, in Ford's own words, 'profoundly destructive
and hence immoral ... another form of rebellion against God.'

Ford is a religious Jew, not a cultural one, yet it
is cultural Jews – 'non-Jewish Jews,' he calls them – with whom Ford's
site is most invested, specifically all those non-Jewish Jews who
get it on and buy and sell the getting-it-on in the porn industry.
Like all of his polemics, Ford's essay on these Jews is a rambling
collage of theories, interviews, and uncited historical references
that never really coalesce into an identifiable argument.

Ford is less of an opinion maker and more of an archivist-chronicler,
his agenda always buried beneath layers of deferral and ambiguity.
In the piece, Ford turns the Jews-run-Hollywood riff into a Jews-run-porn
riff, listing off the secret Hebraic roots of all the key players
– Randy 'Andy Abrams' West, Barbara 'Stacy Mitnick' Dare. He also
feeds the age-old anti-Semitic connection that Hitler turned into
grounds for genocide in Mein Kampf – Jews as dirty, parasitic merchants
of smut, disease, and moral pollution – by emphasizing the high number
of Jewish porn publishers throughout smut's history."

"Secular
Jews play a disproportionate role throughout the sex industry ...
Jews accounted for most of the leading male [pornography] performers
of the 1970s and '80s ...

If the Torah [Pentateutch] command Jews 'to be a kingdom
of priests and a holy nation,' and Judaism strongly opposes porn,
why do Jews dominate porn? ... Pornographer Seymore Butts attributes
the large number of Jews in porn to the desire for profits. Jews gravitate
towards money ...

I have not yet met a Jewish guy who wasn't horny as
a rabbit,' says [Jewish porn star] Nina Hartley, 'Culturally
it's OK for Jews to act and for WASPs its different ... Plus, they
get to have sex with all these beautiful blonde women ... Where else
are you going to get a succession of shiksas [non-Jewish women] to
bed you down?'"Of Fraud and Sex.com.
The Industry Standard, November 29, 2000

"Sex.com is one of the more lucrative properties
on the Web. InternetNews cited 'some industry experts' as estimating
its worth at $250 million. Reuters went with a guesstimate
by 'lawyers' of $100 million, and added that court documents indicate
that the site's former owner, Stephen Cohen, who had been running
the site since 1995, took home $17 million in salary and holds stock
options worth $100 million.

In the court case, filed in 1998, Gary Kremen accused
Stephen Cohen of stealing the domain name that he, Kremen, had first
registered in 1994. Cohen, who all the stories noted has done prison
time for fraud, allegedly forged a letter that persuaded Network
Solutions (dossier) to transfer the name to him in 1995. Cohen
then built sex.com into a destination that attracts 25 million visitors
a day, according to Reuters.

All the reporters noted that the judge had ordered
Cohen to pay $25 million into a court-controlled fund until damages
(if any) are determined, because the court feared that Cohen was hiding
his assets offshore."

[Stephen Cohen should not be confused with BENJAMIN
Cohen,
of England, who, at 18 years of age, became a millionaire with the
founding of JewishNet and has since founded cyberbritain
(featuring huntforporn.co.uk and dotadults.com).

As mere sampling, other premiere Jewish Internet
porn moguls include Seattle-based Seth Warshavsky, called "the
Bill Gates of Smut" by the Los Angeles Times [Ehrman, M. 6-13-99,
p. 26; read The
Prince of Porn at wired.com] ; Jonathan Silverstein, the
president of Cybererotica [Chairman: Ron Levi]; Peter
Asher, the president of Vivid Entertainment Group (the
"world's leading producer of adult films and videos" -- founded by
Steven Hirsch and David James; read about the VEG
porn team in
Silicone Valley: When Porn Goes Public at the Industry Standard);
and Danni Ashe, one of the major women entrepreneurs in the
online porn field -- read the The
Brains Behind the Boobs, at wired.com]

"Never mind the porn on Sex.com. If even half the allegations
that [Gary] Kremen makes are true, the tale behind Sex.com is the
most sordid in the short history of the Internet economy

[Stephen] Cohen was convicted in 1991
for posing as a lawyer in a bankruptcy court in a scheme to bilk an
elderly woman's creditors out of $200,000. According to court records,
Cohen assumed the identity of several attorneys, forged phony deeds
and cashier's checks, and attempted to hide the woman's assets. Cohen
was sentenced to 46 months. It was his second conviction. In 1975,
he was found guilty of grand theft and check kiting ... Within eight
months of his prison release, Cohen controlled the Sex.com domain
name.

Cohen allegedly pulled off of the domain heist with
a forged letter, dated 15 October 1995, to Network Solutions, the
Net's registrar ... In an early interview, before Kremen raised his
allegations, Cohen claimed that he had been using the Sex.com name
since 1979, as part of The French Connection, an electronic
bulletin board he founded for 'swingers, nudist camps, and alternative
lifestyles.' BBSs were the primary source of digital porn before the
Web. Back then, he said, Sex.com stood for 'Sex Communications ...

By the late '80s, Cohen had set up a real-world meeting
place for French Connection swingers at a home in Orange County, California.
Hundreds of couples met at 'The Club' on Friday and Saturday nights
to swap partners. After neighbors complained, police arrested Cohen
in 1990 on charges of operating a sex club in a residential zone.
Cohen moved The Club elsewhere, and the charges were dropped ...

In late 1995, with Kremen temporarily stymied in his
attempts to regain the domain, Cohen and four Orange County entrepreneurs
dreamed up big plans for Sex.com. The grandest plan had little to
do with the Internet. In January 1996, the group unveiled its bid
to buy a Nevada brothel called Sheri's Ranch and transform
it into a $100 million 'adult fantasy resort.' Named Wanaleiya,
the Polynesian-themed resort would feature 500 exotic women who 'would
not hesitate to see to your comfort and pleasure.'"

"Of the individuals indicted by the federal government
in the MIPORN [Miami Pornography] operation, [Jewish porn mogul] Reuben
Sturman was clearly the most important. Sturman presided over
his business enterprises from his Sovereign News Company, headquartered
in Cleveland.

Sovereign News was housed in a three-story, red-brick
building, surrounded by chain-link fences and barbed wire and protected
by the most modern and sophisticated electronic surveillance devices
money can buy (Potter, 1986; Satchell, 1979). Sturman controlled pornography
distribution warehouses in Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Denver,
Milwaukee, Buffalo, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Detroit. In addition,
he was the principle owner of between 300 and 800 retail pornography
stores around the country (May and Hosenball, 1981).

Sturman's Sovereign News Empire dominated the pornography
industry and created an environment in which smaller operators and
their distributors were dependent upon Sovereign News for their survival.
A confidential FBI memorandum on the pornography industry said that
[Sturman's business practices] have included the strong-arm shakedowns
of other dealers, distributors, and suppliers throughout the United
States, particularly on the West Coast." Business Booms in Jail for Our Top Pornographer,Sydney Morning Herald [Australia],
January 30, 1995

"An American criminal, David Sturman, whose
father was once the largest distributor of hard-core pornography in
the world, has been able to gain a substantial slice of the Australian
pornography industry while serving a jail sentence in California.
By using Australians to act as owners of his businesses in Sydney
and Canberra, Sturman avoided probity checks which are essential in
gaining a licence to operate. Two years ago, Sturman and his American
partner, Mark Franks, set up a group of companies to control
the importation, sale and distribution of pornographic videos from
outlets such as the Adam and Eve shop in Canberra."

"Israeli porn producers are hiring actors who look
like Egyptian stars ... According to the Nasserist Al-Arabi weekly
publication ... film producers are tracking down actors who look like
current Egyptian stars, and using them to shoot porn flicks in Israel.
The films are then imported to Egypt and screened for paying customers.

Appeal is broad for such materials, because Egyptian
cinema is the most popular in the Middle East. Al-Arabi said
the goal of the porn films was to 'tarnish the reputation of Egyptian
film stars.' The original actors are, of course, not pleased with
the alternative personas that have been handed to them ... Yusra Alawi
told reporters she is asking her attorney to obtain copies of the
films and to pursue legal action against those responsible."

"People
call Jeremy addicted (to food), a tightwad, a clown, a spotlight
hound and a man who can maintain an erection longer than any man in
pornography. He claims not to use Viagra. He was born Ron Hyatt into
a Jewish family who don't seem too put off by his ultimate career
choice, although after the first porn film, his dad told Ron not to
use his last name ... We are talking about a man who can count a film
called Blow it Out Your Ass, as a typical title among the 1600 or
so films he has appeared in."

"'I‘m just a nice Jewish boy with one vice,' says Queens
native Ron Jeremy. 'Twenty-three years of porn films.' Scott
J. Gill’s documentary 'Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy,'
which opens in select cities this month, chronicles the life and times
of the unlikeliest Jew in the world — and the unlikeliest porn star.

The 48-year-old Jeremy dotes on his family. They dote
on him. His dad's a physicist. His brother's a Harvard-educated executive.
Most everyone else in the family has at least a master's degree. Jeremy
earned his master's in special education from Queens College in part
to help his disabled mother.

He looks more like your Uncle Moe than a sex god. But
while he’s not so easy on the eyes (he’s nicknamed 'The Hedgehog'
because he’s short, fat and hairy), he’s been paid huge sums to bed
more gorgeous women than James Bond. Gill’s hilarious film — in which
Jeremy fans jubilantly declare, 'He’s Jewish!' — stands apart from
other movies on the porn biz that have emerged in the past decade
... At its core, the flick poses the question, 'How did a hammy kid
from Flushing become the most recognized male figure in adult film?'

Answers begin to emerge when the documentary shows
home movies of the young Jeremy (born Ron Jeremy Hyatt) mugging
for the camera while opening Chanukah presents. 'He’s always been
a performer,' says his sister. 'From the time he was in elementary
school ... he always wanted to be the center of attention' ...

His family wasn’t thrilled with his career choice,
but staunchly supported his First Amendment rights when a film-related
bust forced him to fight in court (it was illegal then to film porn
in Los Angeles). 'Jewish families tend to be more liberal than Christian
ones,' says the performer, citing the preponderance of Jewish men
in porn. 'They aren’t obsessed by the fear of the devil or going to
hell' ...

The garrulous Jeremy — who hopes to wed his girlfriend
in a synagogue and raise their kids Jewish — is momentarily silent
when asked how he’d feel if he had a daughter who wanted to do porn."

"To
many people, Nina Hartley would appear to be the embodiment
of contradiction: a feminist who's also a veteran porn star and damn
proud of it. Further confounding stereotypes, she's a public speaker
as comfortable in a college lecture hall as on a strip club stage
and a politically aware progressive -- a 'third-generation socialist,'
she called herself in a wide-ranging 1989 interview in Shmate,
a now-defunct progressive Jewish journal.

She's a 1985 graduate of San Francisco State University
with a B.S. in nursing. Magna cum laude, at that. She entered the
sex business in 1982, working as a stripper at a San Francisco club
while she was in college. Hartley, who estimates she has appeared
in 360 movies or videos, made her first film in 1984 ... Hartley's
emergence as one of porn's top stars coincided with a burgeoning public
debate over the medium ...

The opinionated and articulate Hartley entered the
fray and has become the foremost spokesperson for women working in
the porn industry.

"Brazilian police continued to surround the Israeli
consulate in Rio de Janeiro in the belief that Israeli vice-consul
in Rio Aryeh Scher, wanted on suspicion of running a child
pornography ring, had taken refuge there.

However Foreign Ministry officials said Scher has been
en route to Israel for the past two days. Scher, who was at one point
consul-general in Rio, was declared a fugitive by Brazilian authorities
after a search of his apartment on Tuesday yielded what police officials
described as evidence it was used for the manufacture of pornographic
material, some of them involving underage girls ...

Brazilian authorities notified the Israeli embassy
of plans to revoke Scher's diplomatic immunity on Tuesday, prior to
the search. By the time police were able to obtain a warrant to search
Scher's penthouse, the vice-consul was already on his way back to
Israel, where he will face a Foreign Ministry inquiry ...

The investigation that culminated in the search of
Scher's apartment began when a 17-year-old girl accused Georges
Schteinberg, a 40-year-old Hebrew teacher of using her as a model
in pornographic pictures and of distributing them on the Internet.
Photographs of nude minors posed on a car with diplomatic plates were
discovered in a search of Schteinberg's residence earlier in the week,
in addition to massive quantities of pornographic material. Police
then traced the car in the pictures back to Scher."

"FEDERAL OFFICIALS SUSPECT A WALNUT CREEK MAN OF BEING
A MAJOR DISTRIBUTOR OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY FROM RUSSIA.

A Walnut Creek man accused of being the 'best customer'
of Russian child pornography kingpins is now himself suspected of
being a 'major distributor' of illegal sexual materials, federal officials
disclosed Friday.

As the investigation of Seth Bekenstein, 39,
continues to evolve, authorities are diving deeper into the world
of a man they believe trafficked in vast amounts of kiddie porn, said
Elise Becker, an assistant U.S. attorney. 'At this time, we do actually
think he is a major distributor both in the United States and abroad,'
Becker told Magistrate Wayne Brazil during a bail hearing Friday in
U.S. District Court in Oakland. 'This has been his life for the past
year.'"Jewish Porn,
World Union of Jewish Students

"After things like Jewish calendar, Jewish singles,
Jewish dating, and Jewish festivals comes 'Jewish porn' in the list
of top search keywords that GoTo.com provide. That is to say that
1000s of people are searching for Jewish porn. Why? ... Sam Stern
is a guy. A guy who went on Young Judea year course in the early 90s.
He lives in LA, spends his time making porn movies starring himself,
and selling them on E-Bay. The guy is quite philosophical about his
calling. Talks a lot about the strangeness of making porn on Yom Kippur,
bits of guilt in the background, that sort of thing. Although mostly
it really does seem that he is just kind of glad that he can make
a living and have sex with porn stars. So, for circumcised hard-core
porn, with a Jew in, find Sam."

"The former rabbi of a Morris County synagogue pleaded
guilty Tuesday to having child pornography on his temple computer.
Juda Mintz Jr., who now lives in Georgia, faces 27 to 33 months
in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 ...

Mintz admitted that at that time he had at least 10
computer files containing photographs of minors engaging in sexual
activity, including some images of children under 12. The synagogue
said it cooperated with authorities. 'We deplore his actions and,
indeed, relieved him of his duties because of them,' according to
a statement released by synagogue vice president Jonathan Ramsfelder.
'During his tenure, (Rabbi Mintz) was viewed by many congregants as
a warm, generous and dynamic rabbi and teacher. This was a loss.'"
Former
Little League Administrator Faces Child Porn Charges,
KFWB, March 6, 2002

"A former Long Beach Little League administrator is
facing federal child pornography charges, according to the FBI. Signal
Hill police and FBI agents arrested Laurent Blumenthal Tuesday
after he was indicted on charges of possession of child pornography.
Court documents allege the 65-year-old placed a hidden camera in his
bathroom to secretly record young boys. The allegations were in an
affidavit filed in support of a search warrant executed at Blumenthal's
Signal Hill home on Jan. 14. Investigators also seized a computer
at Blumenthal's home which allegedly had child pornography on the
hard drive, according to the FBI."

"Czech officials have quashed plans to shoot scenes
from a porno film at the former wartime transit camp of Terezin. Officials
banned the use of video cameras at Terezin after reports that a porn
movie would be shot there.

'I did the only thing I could do,' Jan Munk, director
of a monument to Terezin victims, said. Munk´s move came after the
Czech tabloid Super reported Saturday that the film, starring
top Czech porn star Robert Rosenberg, who is also the film´s
producer, is set at the end of World War II and will tell the story
of how women at the camp were raped by Nazis.

The ban might be too late, however, since Rosenberg
has already filmed some parts of the camp. The paper that printed
the original article on the film, which also printed a collage of
a semi-naked woman posing in front of a picture of Terezin, said the
film's working title is 'How it Was.'"

"Porn movies and programs in Hebrew are being broadcast
by Israeli troops who have taken over three Palestinian television
stations of Ramallah, irate residents of the besieged West Bank town
have told AFP. The offices of three local television and radio stations
were occupied by soldiers yesterday morning, a few hours after tanks
and hundreds of troops stormed the town in Israel's biggest offensive
against the Palestinian Authority and its leader Yasser Arafat.

The soldiers started broadcasting the porn clips --
considered extremely offensive by most Muslims -- intermittently this
afternoon from the Al-Watan, Ammwaj, and Al-Sharaq channels, the residents
said. 'The pornographic movies started on Al-Watan television at around
3:30 pm,' one 34-year-old Palestinian mother named Reema told AFP.
'I have six children at home, they have nowhere to go with what is
going on here and can't even watch TV,' she said angrily. 'It's not
healthy really. I think the Israelis want to mess with our young men's
heads,' she said.

Anita, a 52-year-old mother of three children, complained
about "the deliberate psychological damage caused by these broadcast.'.
'I am furious, these are the people who are shooting at us that also
play this disgusting trick on us,' she said. 'We are desperate for
news and constantly flipping channels and get these terrible pictures
instead,' adding that videos of the intifada were also shown backwards
with 'ideal terrorism' written in red across the screen. 'Luckily,
there is no electricity in half of Ramallah,' she said from her house
in east Jerusalem where the channels are also available.

A fourth local station, whose premises were not seized
by the army, ran a written message across its screen letting people
know it was the Israelis who were behind the graphic scenes. 'Anything
currently shown on Al-Watan and other local TV channels has nothing
to do with Palestinian programs but is being broadcast by the Israeli
occupation forces, we urge parents to take precautions,' the message
said. The Israeli military denied that it had anything to do with
the pornographic programming and instead blamed the Palestinian leaders."

"David Asimov, of Living Oak Court, Bennett
Ridge, Santa Rosa, the son of the late science fiction writer Isaac
Asimov, was sentenced on March 28, 2001 to six months' home detention
with electronic monitoring and three years federal probation for possessing
child pornography.

U.S. District Court Judge Maxine M. Chesney sentenced
Asimov after reviewing a series of sealed psychiatric reports, one
of which was ordered by the court. Asimov who was charged with
four federal counts of possession of child pornography with each count
carrying a five year sentence, pled guilty to two counts in a plea
bargain deal.

There was no forfeiture of any of Asimov's assets
in this case, despite his owning a home in Santa Rosa purchased in
1996 for $375,000, and despite his receiving $3,000 per month from
his father's estate.

How did Asimov, who possessed one of the largest
stashes of pornography in California, skate away from federal prison?
A look at the players yields the answer. Asimov's child porn stash
was so big many child victims and perpetrators would have taken a
fall, had Asimov been zealously prosecuted at trial."

"A
year-old pornography investigation has led to the filing of criminal
charges against two Hollywood actors: Paul Reubens, best known
as Pee-wee Herman, and veteran character actor Jeffrey Jones
of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

Reubens was charged with one misdemeanor count
of possessing materials depicting children under the age of 18 engaged
in sexual conduct, said Ana Garcia, a spokeswoman with the City Attorney's
office. He surrendered to authorities Friday and was released on $20,000
bail ... Reubens, 50, and Jones, 56, are acquaintances and
both cases stem from the same police investigation, said Los Angeles
County District Attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons. ...

Reubens pleaded no contest to an indecent exposure
charge in 1991 after he was arrested in Sarasota, Fla., for allegedly
exposing himself in a movie theater. After that plea, Reubens' long-running
'Pee-wee Herman Show' was canceled and his star faded, although he
has had supporting roles in a number of films since, including 'Buffy
the Vampire Slayer' and 'Blow.'"

"Andrew
Jarecki brings to this year's Sundance [Film Festival] a new kind
of legend — an indie who has already made a million ($388 million,
to be exact, which is what AOL paid for his company, Moviefone,
in 1999, keeping him on as CEO). The multitalented mogul, who has
also penned and performed songs for the WB's late, lamented 'Felicity,'
is showing his documentary 'Capturing the Friedmans,' one of several
offerings topping the list of must-see films with Jewish themes ...

Buzz for 'Friedmans' is strong. In 1987, New York
Newsday broke the story of Arnold Friedman, an upper-middle-class
high school teacher from Great Neck, Long Island, who was arrested
as part of a federal sting operation against mail-order pornography.
Friedman's wife ran a childcare center from their home; Friedman
was also a buyer of child pornography. As detailed in 'Capturing the
Friedmans,' during the arrest agents began to suspect that children
who came to the Friedmans' home for day care and after-school
computer classes were being abused. Jarecki was given surprising
access to the family's home videos, which he uses to sort through
the various versions of the truth regarding the charges.

""I'm the kink controller here at Click + Drag,
which means I have to keep people in line,' says the 40-year-old [Abby]
Ehmann. 'I make sure that nothing gets out of control -- just
kinky' ... Ehmann has many titles in addition to kink controller.
She is the 'editrix' of Extreme Fetish magazine -- dubbed 'The
best alternative sex publication in New York' by TimeOut magazine.
She is on the board of directors of Feminists for Free Expression,
an organization that fights restrictions on free speech, and she is
a writer and a performer. But for all her roles, Ehmann has only one
mission: to satisfy the appetites of New Yorkers who are not sated
by polite and sterile living ... She started a fanzine called Porn
Free with the idea of giving away pornography. 'I thought, hey,
there's a niche that no one is filling. Of course, it wasn't very
profitable.' Ehmann gave up Porn Free after being approached
in 1997 by D&L Enterprises, a publishing company, to be
the editor of a fetish magazine. It was Ehmann's goal to create a
sex publication that would provide fetishists with content suited
to their needs. Each monthly issue of Extreme Fetish has a
particular theme, such as latex, shoe fetishes or musclebound divas."

"You have to see it to believe it and even seeing it
might not help. I've been sent it over the years by feminists in Israel--I
had seen it--I didn't really believe it. Unlike in the United States,
pornography is not an industry. You find it in mainstream magazines
and advertising. It is mostly about the Holocaust. In it, Jewish women
are sexualized as Holocaust victims for Jewish men to masturbate over.

Well, would you believe it, even if you saw it? Israeli
women call it 'Holocaust pornography.' The themes are fire, gas, trains,
emaciation, death ... . Monitin is a left-liberal slick monthly
for the intelligentsia and upper class. It has high productions and
aesthetic values. Israel's most distinguished writers and intellectuals
publish in it. Judith Antonelli in The Jewish Advocate reported
that Monitin 'contains the most sexually violent images. Photos
abound of women sprawled out upside-down as if they have just been
attacked.'

Or, in a magazine for women that is not unlike Ladies'
Home Journal, there is a photograph of a woman tied to a chair
with heavy rope. Her shirt is torn off her shoulders and upper chest
but her arms are tied up against her so that only the fleshy part
of the upper breasts is exposed. She is wearing pants--they are wet.
A man, fully dressed, standing next to her, is throwing beer in her
face. In the United States, such photographs of women are found in
bondage magazines. For purists, there is an Israeli pornography magazine.
The issue I saw had a front-page headline that read: ORGY AT YAD VASHEM.
Yad Vashem is the memorial in Jerusalem to the victims of the Holocaust.
Under the headline, there was a photograph of a man sexually entangled
with several women. What does this mean--other than that if you are
a Jewish woman you don't run to Israel, you run from it?"

"Richard Desmond [also Jewish], the owner of Express
Newspapers, is in dispute with the inland revenue over a £8m tax
bill. His argument with the taxman began after a 1993 business deal
when United Newspapers agreed to buy 10 of his magazines,
resulting in a £12m windfall for the pornography publisher ... The
Money Programme revelations could not come at a worse time for Mr
Desmond, who is desperately trying to shake off his 'porn baron'
tag. Only 10 days ago he went on the BBC's Ten O'Clock News to protest
against the use of the word 'pornographer'. Demonstrating for the
first time he is embarrassed by the P-word, Mr Desmond said
of his critics: 'They use the word pornography... they use all sorts
of nasty words.' Mr Desmond, who, according to his arch-rival
David Sullivan, owns 50 top shelf titles and three porn TV channels,
carried on: 'We don't publish pornography, we publish adult magazines.'
He has been trying to sell his porn empire for the last two years
but there have been no takers. The Money Programme confirms MediaGuardian.co.uk
reports that Mr Desmond was also spurred into action by a Guardian
investigation into one of his pornography websites that offered live
lesbian sex as well as other images portraying pregnant women and
women as old as 78. Deric Botham, who ran Mr Desmond's Fantasy Channel
for five years, explained how within 24 hours of the article appearing
he 'decimated' the site to prevent further media opporobrium."

This
is a crazy world. What can be done? Amazingly, we have been mislead.
We have been taught that we can control government by voting. The
founder of the Rothschild dynasty, Mayer Amschel Bauer, told the secret
of controlling the government of a nation over 200 years ago. He said,
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not
who makes its laws." Get the picture? Your freedom hinges first on
the nation's banks and money system. That's why we advocate using
the Liberty Dollar, to understand the
monetary and banking system. Freedom is connected with Debt Elimination for each individual.
Not only does this end personal debt, it places the people first in
line as creditors to the National Debt ahead of the banks. They don't
wish for you to know this. It has to do with recognizing WHO you really
are in A New Beginning: A Practical Course in Miracles.
You CAN
take back your power and stop volunteering to pay taxes to the collection
agency for the BEAST. You can take back that which is yours,
always has been yours and use it to pay off your debts. And you can
send others to these pages to discover what you are discovering.